There’s no ‘perfect shot’, but a process that leads to contentment. Sometimes this process is long, other times short. Learning to enjoy that journey is the key to success.
I live in an area with a lot of “messy” forest that is beautiful when I’m in it, but I struggle to capture a frame that does it justice. Watching your thought process was enlightening. Thanks!
Ahhh the memories! I remember just walking through the forest with you trying to discover a shot, these videos spark a lot of your teachings! So thanks once again Will!
I'm injured right now and unable to go exploring in the forests. What better way to spend some down time learning from you. Love this style of video and your approach to finding the right composition for your shot. The end result was epic! Super inspired now to get better and head back out there. Thanks Will.
Great video and an awesome image. I was amused when you said that the forest makes you feel like the worst photographer. The you come away with a cracker of an image. Not much hope for the rest of us. Having said that watching your process of choosing compositions and creating images is truly inspirational. thank you sharing.
Very interesting to see you searching for just the right angle and field of view that brings all your desired elements together. There's so much more to it than just pointing and shooting, and it becomes abundantly clear when watching this video.
Great video Will about being patient and persistent for the just right shot. And enjoying the beautiful forest along the way, just being there which is what gets us all out shooting. Thanks for making this video.
What a beautiful area you live in, truly wonderful. Grateful video and interesting to watch your thought process as you build up to your final image. Learning so much from your videos. I recently purchased some of your videos, which are awesome. Well done mate.
Will. Really enjoyable outing with you. Great to see how you keep searching when you feel that special scene is not there. Liked the comment that you have one shot to try and capture everything around you. Awesome surrounds.
Picked up so much with your discussion on light particularly when you stopped the car and said this isn’t it, as that’s where I’d have got out! Haha. The diffused lighting by the river was great and the trees in the video looked great, trying to capture that scene at the end was pretty darn inspiring Will.
Cheers Mario. Hope you can perhaps travel someday and get out to some inspiring scenes. I know it’s not easy living somewhere that’s not necessarily an inspiration for your photography.
Thanks for a great video.👍 It was very interesting to follow along with your thought process as you sought out your composition. Also reassuring to know that I am not alone in often feeling overwhelmed by the challenge of distilling beautiful scenery down to a single 2D frame. It's like stage fright! 😄 Keep up the excellent work.
You are 100% not alone Brian. I think it's one of the hardest things to learn. Seeing without the camera first then building the frame is what works for me
Truly inspirational once more, Will and also strangely comforting. Do we all get out there and all too often feel overwhelmed, unable to pick out a composition that speaks to us, however beautiful the surroundings? To listen to the majority of vlogging photographers out there, I often feel alone in self-doubt. Yet this video of yours would suggest that I am not alone. If you can struggle sometimes, then I'm darned sure that I can give myself permission to struggle too :-)
Thanks a lot Chris! That’s all part of the process and what eventually makes it so enjoyable. We need challenges. If there’s no challenge, then we’re not pushing ourselves. Enjoy the times you go home empty handed, it’ll only make it even sweeter when you eventually create something you like.
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography A state of mind which I have yet to achieve Will, though I do try. So easy to go out, not "see the shot" and to start to feel like a failure, thus turning the experience away from being out and about in a beautiful place into one which is full of stress and self-doubt. Yes, I'm 67 years old, yet I still think that I need to "grow up", photographically-speaking; to just chill, enjoy, experience and, above all, not to stress. My life has always been results-driven, but I can see that, for the sake of my own sanity, I need to try to change that and to use photography as a means to DE-stress rather than as a rod with which to beat myself. So much to learn.
“Might have something guys” Understatement of the year 😆 Such a beautiful place. I saw several what I thought were - or with some processing could be - beautiful images. Maybe not tippy top but still beautiful. Keep exploring.
Haha, thank you mate. The challenge is trying to always create something a little different to what I've done before, then throw in the dynamic of having it interesting enough to have a video about it!
Awesome video Will. The way you portray the process you go through is real and very inspiring. I'd have wet boots, covered in tree bits and dirty from top to bottom in the same circumstances, whereas you are cool calm and collected! The end result is downright beautiful and I'm now going to try that when I'm next out on one of those days where the light is too bright. Thanks for the video!
Good to see your thought process on finding a composition. Our Aussie bush always makes composition a challenge. I thought your white balance was quite subdued in this video. Thanks for sharing 👏
Enjoyed your video very much, Will! Good to see your thought process. The forest is such a wonderful place to shoot that always challenges oneself. Looks like a fabulous place to shoot!!
Great video. I have found forests to be difficult as well to find a composition and does require you to slow down and keep looking. BTW I was on an Adamus trip last month to Glacier NP and he said you are his brother from a different mother. 😁
Cheers Steve! Yes, the forest is a whole different pace that’s for sure. I caught up with Marc yesterday whilst he’s currently here in NZ. He’s definitely a brother and someone who’s inspired me greatly.
Really good to go through your mindset ( process ) in capturing that beautiful scene, certainly agree with you William that being pushed makes you a better photographer. Many thanks for sharing this with us. Magical result.
A great tutorial in persistence and spending time to get the shot. You definitely travel light, it must give you so much freedom not worrying about "Where can I put my tripod?" Also having someone else to the videography.
If I can avoid the tripod I do. I want to be nimble and able to react to what's happening around me. +1 vote for the bonkers image stabilization in modern camera!
@@PMCN53 for sure. We still need them for astro but I look forward to the day we don’t! And yes, it certainly helps having someone film and edit most of these for me. Allows me to concentrate on doing what I do.
Love your video sharing. Thanks for sharing so much of your thoughts and ideas. This video colour look quite desaturated. It will look more 'realistic' with presence, if the video colour could be more saturated or natural. Just an opinion for future consideration
Thanks mate. I use it primarily for that water and blend it in manually. Some very slight movement doesn’t matter at all, otherwise the auto align in PS does a good job anyways.
Awesome Vlog William! I'm traveling through the south island right now and just found your channel after reading a blog post of yours. Really enjoying photographing New Zealand. It's beautiful everywhere! Question for you - when you bracket handheld are you just doing a rough hand blend Ps to brush in your desired highlights and shadows from the middle and slow exposure? I always figured you had to be on a tripod to use bracketing! Thanks!
Hope you’re having a great time here! I’m only mainly bracketing for the water flow there, and then just manually blend that in PS. Pretty rare for me to bracket at all and I don’t use a tripod unless it’s night photography which is like twice per year haha. Cheers!
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography Gotcha! Thanks man! I'm a real estate photographer back home so I use bracketing all the time on a tripod and I never even considered it could be done handheld. Great tip! Absolutely loving NZ! Coming up on 4 weeks in the south island and heading to the north for a couple on Monday! Thanks the reply and all of the great content!
What a hard place to take photos is the forest. I always feel that frustration for not beeing able to get the image I want. But on the other side I remember that I'm there only because of my love for nature.
I enjoyed seeing your process of capturing the image. I totally relate to feeling frustrated sometimes in the forest as it is really hard to to capture "the frame". Also, what's up with the color in the video? Very desaturated and washed out.
There’s no ‘perfect shot’, but a process that leads to contentment. Sometimes this process is long, other times short. Learning to enjoy that journey is the key to success.
Luv ❤️ 😍 your ads! Do more 😄
I live in an area with a lot of “messy” forest that is beautiful when I’m in it, but I struggle to capture a frame that does it justice. Watching your thought process was enlightening. Thanks!
Thanks Yolanda! Hope you have some success on your next visit :)
Ahhh the memories! I remember just walking through the forest with you trying to discover a shot, these videos spark a lot of your teachings! So thanks once again Will!
Thanks so much Mary! Feels like a lifetime ago now.
I'm injured right now and unable to go exploring in the forests. What better way to spend some down time learning from you. Love this style of video and your approach to finding the right composition for your shot. The end result was epic! Super inspired now to get better and head back out there. Thanks Will.
Thanks so much. I hope you have a speedy recovery!
Great video and an awesome image. I was amused when you said that the forest makes you feel like the worst photographer. The you come away with a cracker of an image. Not much hope for the rest of us. Having said that watching your process of choosing compositions and creating images is truly inspirational. thank you sharing.
Haha, cheers John. It has a way of humbling you that’s for sure. But the possibilities are certainly endless out there. Thanks mate :)
It's great to hear you go through all your thoughts on shot selection.
Thanks Dan!
Very interesting to see you searching for just the right angle and field of view that brings all your desired elements together. There's so much more to it than just pointing and shooting, and it becomes abundantly clear when watching this video.
Thanks a lot John! Much appreciated mate.
Great video Will about being patient and persistent for the just right shot. And enjoying the beautiful forest along the way, just being there which is what gets us all out shooting. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you Tom!
such a unique landscape you have over there! love the final image, William!
Thanks a lot mate!
That final shot is so beautiful.
What a beautiful area you live in, truly wonderful. Grateful video and interesting to watch your thought process as you build up to your final image. Learning so much from your videos. I recently purchased some of your videos, which are awesome. Well done mate.
Ah, cheers for the kind words Mike! I look forward to seeing your image!
Will. Really enjoyable outing with you. Great to see how you keep searching when you feel that special scene is not there. Liked the comment that you have one shot to try and capture everything around you. Awesome surrounds.
Thank you Kev. Always appreciate your comments.
Picked up so much with your discussion on light particularly when you stopped the car and said this isn’t it, as that’s where I’d have got out! Haha. The diffused lighting by the river was great and the trees in the video looked great, trying to capture that scene at the end was pretty darn inspiring Will.
Thanks a lot mate! Really appreciate the comment and support.
Well done wish I was out there with you. We don't have those kind of things in Malta no rivers no forest.
Cheers Mario. Hope you can perhaps travel someday and get out to some inspiring scenes. I know it’s not easy living somewhere that’s not necessarily an inspiration for your photography.
Nice to see how you made this stunning image.
Thank you mate!
Thanks for a great video.👍 It was very interesting to follow along with your thought process as you sought out your composition. Also reassuring to know that I am not alone in often feeling overwhelmed by the challenge of distilling beautiful scenery down to a single 2D frame. It's like stage fright! 😄 Keep up the excellent work.
You are 100% not alone Brian. I think it's one of the hardest things to learn. Seeing without the camera first then building the frame is what works for me
You nailed it with that final shot. Wow. Cool as you like no tripod. Killed it. Epic.
hehe cheers!
Truly inspirational once more, Will and also strangely comforting. Do we all get out there and all too often feel overwhelmed, unable to pick out a composition that speaks to us, however beautiful the surroundings? To listen to the majority of vlogging photographers out there, I often feel alone in self-doubt. Yet this video of yours would suggest that I am not alone. If you can struggle sometimes, then I'm darned sure that I can give myself permission to struggle too :-)
Thanks a lot Chris! That’s all part of the process and what eventually makes it so enjoyable. We need challenges. If there’s no challenge, then we’re not pushing ourselves. Enjoy the times you go home empty handed, it’ll only make it even sweeter when you eventually create something you like.
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography A state of mind which I have yet to achieve Will, though I do try. So easy to go out, not "see the shot" and to start to feel like a failure, thus turning the experience away from being out and about in a beautiful place into one which is full of stress and self-doubt. Yes, I'm 67 years old, yet I still think that I need to "grow up", photographically-speaking; to just chill, enjoy, experience and, above all, not to stress. My life has always been results-driven, but I can see that, for the sake of my own sanity, I need to try to change that and to use photography as a means to DE-stress rather than as a rod with which to beat myself. So much to learn.
Inspirational, William. Thank you.
Thanks a lot Robyn.
“Might have something guys”
Understatement of the year 😆
Such a beautiful place. I saw several what I thought were - or with some processing could be - beautiful images. Maybe not tippy top but still beautiful. Keep exploring.
Haha, thank you mate. The challenge is trying to always create something a little different to what I've done before, then throw in the dynamic of having it interesting enough to have a video about it!
So interesting to hear your thought process in selecting the right composition. The final result was exactly as you had imagined...awesome image !
Thanks Colin! Quite a lot going on in the frame but just enough coherency in the composition to make it work for me.
Great to see you hunting for the composition and your thought process re what might make the best image. That final shot is really something!
Thank you mate!
Awesome vid and image will! It’s cool being able to come on these little journeys! Can’t wait to see these kinds of scenes next year 😃
Yep, soon you’ll be joining in person! Cheers Fi :)
Awesome video Will. The way you portray the process you go through is real and very inspiring. I'd have wet boots, covered in tree bits and dirty from top to bottom in the same circumstances, whereas you are cool calm and collected! The end result is downright beautiful and I'm now going to try that when I'm next out on one of those days where the light is too bright. Thanks for the video!
Thanks so much Leanne!
Great video of the normal process as a landscapephotographer.
Cheers mate
Good to see your thought process on finding a composition. Our Aussie bush always makes composition a challenge. I thought your white balance was quite subdued in this video. Thanks for sharing 👏
Thanks for the feedback Laurel!
The hard work payed off amazing final image man 👏🏻
Thanks bro!
Enjoyed your video very much, Will! Good to see your thought process. The forest is such a wonderful place to shoot that always challenges oneself. Looks like a fabulous place to shoot!!
It certainly is! Cheers for watching!
Great video. I have found forests to be difficult as well to find a composition and does require you to slow down and keep looking. BTW I was on an Adamus trip last month to Glacier NP and he said you are his brother from a different mother. 😁
Cheers Steve! Yes, the forest is a whole different pace that’s for sure. I caught up with Marc yesterday whilst he’s currently here in NZ. He’s definitely a brother and someone who’s inspired me greatly.
Really good to go through your mindset ( process ) in capturing that beautiful scene, certainly agree with you William that being pushed makes you a better photographer. Many thanks for sharing this with us. Magical result.
Cheers mate! Thanks for watching!
Fantastic! Thank You!
Thanks a lot!
Good video! It takes pacience to shoot in the forest (to much going on) and in the desert (to little)…well done!
Yeah I’d say it’s one of the most challenging environments but also one that provides the most possibilities. Cheers!
A great tutorial in persistence and spending time to get the shot. You definitely travel light, it must give you so much freedom not worrying about "Where can I put my tripod?" Also having someone else to the videography.
If I can avoid the tripod I do. I want to be nimble and able to react to what's happening around me. +1 vote for the bonkers image stabilization in modern camera!
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography Thst stabilization technology is basically doing what the tripod was for👍🏻
@@PMCN53 for sure. We still need them for astro but I look forward to the day we don’t! And yes, it certainly helps having someone film and edit most of these for me. Allows me to concentrate on doing what I do.
Love your video sharing. Thanks for sharing so much of your thoughts and ideas.
This video colour look quite desaturated. It will look more 'realistic' with presence, if the video colour could be more saturated or natural. Just an opinion for future consideration
Thanks for the feedback!
Hi nice commentary, how can you do bracketing with hand held shot? Cheers.
Thanks mate. I use it primarily for that water and blend it in manually. Some very slight movement doesn’t matter at all, otherwise the auto align in PS does a good job anyways.
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography thanks I will try that.
Awesome Vlog William! I'm traveling through the south island right now and just found your channel after reading a blog post of yours. Really enjoying photographing New Zealand. It's beautiful everywhere! Question for you - when you bracket handheld are you just doing a rough hand blend Ps to brush in your desired highlights and shadows from the middle and slow exposure? I always figured you had to be on a tripod to use bracketing! Thanks!
Hope you’re having a great time here! I’m only mainly bracketing for the water flow there, and then just manually blend that in PS. Pretty rare for me to bracket at all and I don’t use a tripod unless it’s night photography which is like twice per year haha. Cheers!
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography Gotcha! Thanks man! I'm a real estate photographer back home so I use bracketing all the time on a tripod and I never even considered it could be done handheld. Great tip! Absolutely loving NZ! Coming up on 4 weeks in the south island and heading to the north for a couple on Monday! Thanks the reply and all of the great content!
@@jordanashley9534 awesome mate. On real estates, I’d even just do a single exposure and raise the shadows in post. Then sky replace if needed haha
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography haha. what you're able to accomplish handheld gives me a lot to consider!
What a hard place to take photos is the forest. I always feel that frustration for not beeing able to get the image I want. But on the other side I remember that I'm there only because of my love for nature.
An image is just a bonus. The experience and memories out there are what we will remember most.
Hi Will, when you are bracketing what is your normal bracketing for these types of scenes, e.g. 1 or 2 stops. Thank you
Hey mate, usually 2 stops. But honestly, it’s very rare for me to bracket.
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography thank you very much.
Nice video
Thankss!
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography you’re welcome
I enjoyed seeing your process of capturing the image. I totally relate to feeling frustrated sometimes in the forest as it is really hard to to capture "the frame".
Also, what's up with the color in the video? Very desaturated and washed out.
Thanks for the feedback mate!